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The National Institute on Drug Abuse has added $11.6 million to
an earlier $21.1 million award to the Partnerships in Prevention Science
Institute at Iowa State to continue its Promoting
School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience project.

Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," will present the women's studies program 30th anniversary keynote address on Monday, Nov. 12. Her talk, "Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America," at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room, is free and open to the public.

Iowa State receives $4.5 million commitment from Roy J. Carver
Charitable Trust for new chemistry building; additional funding pledged
for faculty research

Gentile, father explore how violent video games are exemplary
aggression teachers

ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile and his
father, J. Ronald Gentile -- a distinguished teaching professor emeritus of
educational psychology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New
York -- collaborated on a study of nearly 2,500 youths that found that
violent video games are effective teachers of aggression.

Iowa State's new CyberInnovation Institute to strengthen research,
state economy

Iowa State University has created a CyberInnovation Institute
to advance the university's science and engineering research through
linkages with information technology.
The institute is designed to help Iowa State compete for larger and broader
research projects. And it's designed to help Iowa State do a better job
leveraging its research strengths to benefit the state's economic
development.

ISU researcher honored at White House ceremony

Playground soil tested for lead at ISU's Child Development Lab School;
no hazard found

When a September inspection outside Iowa State University's Child
Development Lab School found evidence of lead paint chips on the
northwest perimeter of the playground, experts with ISU's
Environmental Health and Safety Department immediately sent soil
samples to be tested. The test results, shared Nov. 1 with parents of
daycare children in the school, found no lead hazard in the soil,
according to Environmental Protection Agency standards.

Giuliani on campus

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will hold a town hall meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The event is part of the Lecture Program's Presidential Caucus Series, which provides the university community with opportunities to question candidates before the precinct caucuses. It is free and open to the public.

Five Iowa State University faculty members are named fellows of AAAS

Five members of the Iowa State University faculty have been
awarded the distinction of being named fellows by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. This award recognizes
scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or
its applications.

Iowa State agronomist awarded Pioneer Hi-Bred professorship

Michael Thompson, ISU agronomy, has been awarded the
Pioneer Hi-Bred Agronomy Professorship. The intent of the professorship
is to support research, teaching and extension at the ISU agronomy department.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to explore Second Life in Nov.
15 symposium

Iowa State's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is exploring
the new virtual world of Second Life in an upcoming symposium, "A Second
Look at Second Life," which will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, in
the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Iowa State establishes Bioeconomy Institute to advance biorenewable
research

Iowa State University is establishing a Bioeconomy Institute to
help the university and state maintain their leadership in biorenewable
fuels, chemicals and technologies.The initial work of the institute will focus on six program areas: corn
to biofuels; biorenewable chemicals; thermochemical technologies such as
gasification and fast pyrolysis; harvest, storage and transportation of
biomass; feedstock production; and biorenewables education.

Regents approve security policy that arms police

Five former student names to be added to MU war memorial

Iowa State will honor five former students who died in the Iraq or Vietnam wars during a Veterans Day ceremony on Monday, Nov. 12. The Gold Star Hall ceremony will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Great Hall, Memorial Union. The ceremony is free and open to the public.

Seeing virtual reality

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House, wears 3-D
glasses to get the most out of a recent tour of Iowa State University's
Virtual Reality Applications Center. Eliot Winer, an assistant professor of
mechanical engineering, is showing Gingrich the latest in human computer
interaction.

Clayton Anderson

ISU astronaut in space

See Iowa State's first astronaut Clayton Anderson at the International Space Station. Anderson earned his master's degree in
aerospace engineering at Iowa State in 1983.